Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio is the latest high-profile name to sign up to Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s Quibi.
Mercurio, who also created BBC’s hit police drama Line of Duty, is developing science fiction thriller Transmissions for the short-form service. The show is set at a remote radio observatory where a lone scientist begins receiving eerie signals from deep space.
The series comes from Mercurio’s indie Htm Television, which is a joint venture with Flack producer Hat Trick Productions. It is the first major project to emerge from the fledgling firm. Hat Trick Productions’ Managing Director Jimmy Mulville will produce.
The development comes after Mercurio told Deadline that he was considering opportunities to work with U.S. platforms now that Line of Duty is running smoothly on BBC One, and there’s no official season two of Richard Madden-fronted Bodyguard. Speaking on a Deadline-moderated panel at Banff World Media Festival,...
Mercurio, who also created BBC’s hit police drama Line of Duty, is developing science fiction thriller Transmissions for the short-form service. The show is set at a remote radio observatory where a lone scientist begins receiving eerie signals from deep space.
The series comes from Mercurio’s indie Htm Television, which is a joint venture with Flack producer Hat Trick Productions. It is the first major project to emerge from the fledgling firm. Hat Trick Productions’ Managing Director Jimmy Mulville will produce.
The development comes after Mercurio told Deadline that he was considering opportunities to work with U.S. platforms now that Line of Duty is running smoothly on BBC One, and there’s no official season two of Richard Madden-fronted Bodyguard. Speaking on a Deadline-moderated panel at Banff World Media Festival,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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